Domestic Workers’ Union takes struggle for injury and death compensation to ConCourt

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Gasa, S. (11 March 2020). Domestic Workers’ Union takes struggle for injury and death compensation to ConCourt. Daily Maverick.

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South African domestic workers have long been deprived of recognition as employees. The South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union and other activist organisations asked the Constitutional Court to confirm a High Court ruling which affirmed domestic workers’ rights. Eight years after one of their own died at an employer’s home, the ConCourt hearing symbolised the beginning of closure for the deceased’s daughter.

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